As more people use their smartphones and tablets alongside laptop and desktop PCs, the need for storage that works for both PCs and mobile devices only grows. With the Kingston DataTraveler microDuo ($29.95), plugging into your Android device is now just as simple as using a drive on your PC, and...

Simple, compact design; USB and microUSB connections, with PC and Android compatibility.

Android support isn't 100 percent; Requires microUSB, so no support for iOS products

It's a fact that USB3 has to offer very high speed reads and writes, in many cases most USB3 flash drives have the same or higher speed as a traditional spinning drive, but you don't have to pay the penalty of the 2.5" portable size, and most importantly you don't have to wait for it to access the...

Outstanding build quality; Excellent performance; Very attractive; Metal finish for the outside; Slide mechanism; Well priced

Low write speeds when it comes to small files

What exactly is computer security? From an engineering perspective, encrypting your data with a strong key and a complicated algorithm ought to keep anyone away from your sensitive information.

Up for review today I have the Kingston DataTraveler Generation 3 or G3 USB flash drive. The drive is 32gb capacity and it's one of the latest from Kingston. The G3 is very small and lightweight making it portable and easy to take with you.

They say size doesn't matter, but I think it does… at least when it comes to a USB drives, and I'll leave it at that… I've got an exclusive review for you, our friends over at Kingston have sent me a rather expensive USB drive, coming in at about $1100 it's not one that most people will be running...

Well made; Faster than spec speeds; Largest USB drive on the market

Expensive

Verdict: While the Kingston doesn't offer much in the way of extras, it's aggressively priced and super quick.

While the Kingston doesn't offer much in the way of extras, it's aggressively priced and super quick.

I bought two of these drives three weeks ago, and they have both failed. A set of read and write operations that used to take a few seconds now takes over 10 minutes. I have had two of the 16GB drives (Kingston 16GB USB 3.0 DataTraveler I G4 Flash Drive (Blue)) for 4 months and they are both fine.

I bought three of these, all identical 8GB G4 models, and all three of them are equally slow. It's sold as a USB 3.0 stick and it has the characteristic blue USB 3.0 colored port, but the speeds are so horrific that I simply cannot justify spending $7.00 on one of them, and I'm sure not going to...

Inexpensive

-Too Slow: Consistently getting USB 1.1 speeds on this thing using a USB 3.0 front port on my rig; If I plug a 5400RPM external HDD into the same port I get decent USB 3.0 speeds hovering around 150Mb/s, but this "super fast" flash drive gets maybe 10Mb/s